Lust, Caution: The Story, the Screenplay, and the Making of the Film
by Eileen Chang, Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus
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Author: Eileen Chang, James Schamus, Wang Hui LingEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-04
ISBN: 0375425241
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Pantheon
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Summary: 4 Stars
This book brings together the original story by Eileen Chang and its screenplay adaptation by Wang Hui Ling and James Shamus, as well as succinct pieces of thinking by director Ang Lee and screenwriter Shamus. For students of screenwriting, the comparison between source material and adaptation is fascinating - for one thing, the story is short but the film is long (but not 'too long'). More fascinating still is the examination in story and movie of how people can escape into a role that then becomes both stronger and more real than their 'real' selves. As a 'Resistance' story (here Chinese resistance to Japanese occupation in WWII Shanghai), it is perhaps implausible, but the setting is not the subject.
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